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- Barbara Angie Rose Baxley was born on New Year's Day 1923 to Emma A. & C. Bert Baxley in Porterville, CA. She was the youngest of their two daughters and was named after her grandmothers; Angie Sibley-Tyler and Iva Matilda Rose-Baxley. Barbara attended and graduated with honors from the University of the Pacific in Stockton where she was raised, and won a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York where she studied with Sanford Meisner. She made her 1948 Broadway debut in Noël Coward's Private Lives, starring Tallulah Bankhead and Donald Cook. In 1960 she received a Tony nomination for her role in the Tennessee Williams play Period of Adjustment. She was a charter member of the Actors Studio where she studied with Elia Kazan. She was good friends with and shared an apartment with Tallulah Bankhead for many years. She had many television & film roles, and won critical praise for her role as Sally Field 's mother in Norma Rae (1979), but her love was Broadway. Barbara loved cats and had one named Tulah.
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A brassy, blue-eyed platinum blonde of the 1930s in the Jean Harlow tradition. Joan was the daughter of Hollywood cinematographer Charles Rosher and appeared as a child in Mary Pickford movies (on which her father worked as cameraman) billed as Dorothy Rosher. She acted in some amateur dramatics as well but seems to have had little professional training. However, The Times in 1929 referred to her "extraordinary speaking and singing voice" at this crucial period when sound pictures began to replace silent cinema. When she was signed by Universal for King of Jazz (1930), she adopted the stage name Joan Marsh. A fairly busy actress alternating leads and second leads throughout the decade and into the mid-40s, she is perhaps best remembered opposite Warner Oland in Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) and as Dimples in Road to Zanzibar (1941). Long under contract to MGM, she was also featured in two Greta Garbo films, Inspiration (1931) and Anna Karenina (1935). In lighter fare her characters tended to have names like Beanie, Toots or Cuddles. It seems, Joan Marsh was also an accomplished dancer, especially adept at the two most popular dances of the era, the Charleston and the Black Bottom. On screen she performed a ballroom routine with Edward J. Nugent in Dancing Feet (1936). On radio, Joan replaced Beatrice Lillie as hostess of the musical variety show Flying Red Horse Tavern in 1936, as well providing the vocals for Lennie Hayton's Orchestra.
Joan's first husband was the screenwriter Charles Belden, her second, Captain John Morrill of Army Air Transport Command.
Her hobbies included horse riding, tennis and golf.
Joan retired from acting after her final picture for Poverty Row outfit Monogram in 1944 and in later years owned a Los Angeles stationary business, Paper Unlimited.- Actor
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Christopher Swindle is a voice actor from the small town of Porterville, located in the Central Valley of California. He began his acting education at the Fresno City Theatre Arts Department, Roger Rocka's Music Hall and The Good Company Players Second Space Theatre in Fresno, Ca. He currently resides in Los Angeles, Ca.- Christine Haeberman was born on 19 March 1981 in Porterville, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Listening (2014), The Millennium Bug (2011) and Murder Loves Killers Too (2009).
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A.J. Dunn was born on 27 May 1983 in Porterville, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Wedding Ringer (2015), The Muppets (2011) and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He died on 22 October 2019 in Bakersfield, California, USA.- Robert W. Christiansen was born on 24 October 1933 in Porterville, California, USA. He was a producer and executive, known for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985) and Lincoln (1988). He died on 4 December 2018 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Charlotte Pendragon was born in Porterville, California, USA. She is known for Disney's Night of Magic (1993), The Magic of David Copperfield XV: Fires of Passion (1993) and Untitled Pendragons Documentary. She was previously married to Jonathan Pendragon.- Writer
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Ed Nofziger was born on 14 June 1913 in Porterville, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Adventures of Pow Wow (1949), Shinbone Alley (1970) and Popeye the Sailor (1960). He died on 16 October 2000 in Ojai, California, USA.- Born in Porterville, California in 1928, A. John Graves was writing songs and playing piano for school and vaudeville type shows at the age of eight, with his first professional engagement coming six years later. Through the World War II years, his high school dance band had a corner on most of the dances in Tulare County, since all the other musicians had been drafted. His other early professional musical experiences were with former big band jazz players who were too old for the service. (This is where he learned many of the some three thousand songs now included in his request book, The Memory Flogger).
Upon graduating from The College of the Pacific, he went to Los Angeles to try starting a career in broadcasting. When his money ran out, he went on the road with a small comedy band, replacing Stan Freberg. Besides playing for dancing, they did three floor shows a night, and Graves was featured as a dead-pan comedian. After a tour with Rick Fay's Krazy Kats, he settled in Los Angeles and started a family while earning a living playing in piano bars.
Since his efforts to break into broadcasting had been unsuccessful, he finally decided to start at the very bottom, and became a page at NBC. Six months later he was selecting recorded background music for Matinee Theater daily dramas, followed by an eight year stint as an NBC Broadcast Standards Program Policy Editor (so-called censor). This led to the position which had become his goal: Manager of Film Programs, where he supervised for NBC such shows as Bonanza, I Dream of Jeannie, Ironside, The Man from Uncle, Then Came Bronson, The Debbie Reynolds Show, The Monkees, and a series shot in London with Lord Lew Grade called The Strange Report.
In 1970 the management changed at MGM-TV and Graves moved over to become Director of Current Programming. He was the executive in charge of the award-winning Medical Center, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, GE Monogram Documentaries, and several syndicated talk shows. Since executive regimes at this level tend to change about every two years, 1972 gave him the opportunity to become a producer. He helmed Assignment Vienna, with Robert Conrad, an eight hour miniseries filmed on location in Vienna, Austria for MGM-TV and the ABC Television Network.
The newly formed South Australian Film Corporation was looking for someone with network, major studio, and international experience to head up their feature film and television area in1974, and Graves accepted the challenge. Under his guidance, the Corporation made its first major feature success: Peter Weir's critically acclaimed Picnic at Hanging Rock, of which Graves was Executive Producer. During his two year contract, he was also responsible for the BBC's feature Storm Boy, the re-editing of Sunday Too Far Away, and a TV feature movie, The Sound of Love.
Back in the U.S., there followed a series of development deals with Universal, Zev Braun Productions, and EMI. In 1981 Graves became a partner in L.A. House Productions and made a pilot for a syndicated sports show and produced corporate and institutional projects. At the same time, he enrolled in a graduate program at California State University at Northridge with the goal of teaching upon getting his master's degree in Mass Communication. After ten gratifying years as an associate professor in the Communication Department at Central Missouri State University, plus an exchange professorship in Wales, he retired to Pagosa Springs, Colorado as Professor Emeritus. He's very active in the local show business scene, as writer, performer, producer, and consultant.
Throughout this varied career, he has always played several nights a week as a single pianist, side man, or band leader at private parties, including affairs for Judy Garland, Groucho Marx, Danny Thomas, and John Wayne. He has recorded, been a staff pianist at KLAC-TV and on the first Betty White show, was musical director for the Gloria Hart Show on KLAC-TV, and has accompanied such artists as George Burns, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney, Rudy Vallee, Redd Foxx, Arthur Duncan, and Jimmy Durante.
Of the myriad of famous people Graves has met and/or worked with, he recalls associations with three that particularly stand out in his memory: a morning with Lord Bertrand Russell at his home in Wales, an afternoon tea with Katharine Hepburn at her home in Beverly Hills, and the delight of having Eric Sevareid as a house guest for three days in Warrensburg, Missouri.
After almost fifty years of evaluating other people's writing, he's now doing his own, as well as teaching a correspondence course in Creative Writing for Radio, Television, and Film for Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado. He also enjoys playing with different jazz groups, and at clubs and private parties for people who love the music of jazz, standards, and showtunes.
"Boom, Bust, and Battle" was a radio series he originated to explore the music and culture of the 20s, 30, and 40s. It became the basis for a musical variety show he produced with John Porter featuring a Dixieland band, singers, dancers, and comedians celebrating those three decades. This year (04) he created an original musical revue based on the life work of Richard Rodgers called "The Hills Are Alive...," which featured a cast of nearly fifty singers, dancers, and instrumentalists celebrating Rodgers' collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. - Animation Department
Joe Montell was born on 24 June 1925 in Porterville, California, USA. He is known for The Bullwinkle Show (1959), Destination Earth (1956) and Snooper and Blabber (1959). He died on 18 January 2008 in the USA.- Additional Crew
Timothy K. Miller was born on 14 February 1969 in Porterville, California, USA. Timothy K. is known for Being John Malkovich (1999) and Monkeybone (2001).- Ronald Lee Hughart, "Ronnie" was born September 22, 1949 in Porterville, California to parents who had migrated separately from Oklahoma to California in the late 1930s. His mom and dad met in the peach orchards of Pixley, California, so subsequently much of Ron's childhood was spent living the migrant life style. In his writings, Ron very eloquently captures the essence of growing up the oldest of five children to parents who had been forced into the fruits and vegetable fields. In a John Steinbeck-like manner, Ron chronicles in two books, The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl and Beyond the Dust Bowl With a Pocket Full of Peanuts, what it was like to follow his folks as they struggled to re-assimilate into a society who they did not understand or trust and who considered them at best, "Ditch bank Okies."
Ronnie knew an education was important and worked many jobs including hauling garbage and milking cows before and after school. He went into law enforcement and after nine years of night school received a Bachelors of Science Degree in Child Development and a teaching credential. "Mr. Hughart" taught school for twenty years before retiring back to his first career as a police officer. He is currently a police lieutenant, writer and actor.
In his mid fifties, Ron has a budding acting career due directly to his first book. The director of "The Visitation" saw Ron's picture on the back of his first book and subsequently cast him in the role of an angel/demon. Ron worked with Randy Travis, Martin Donovan, Kelly Lynch, Richard Tyson, Priscilla Barnes, Eddie Furlong, James Horan and many others. Since completing his first movie, Ron has been cast in "The Moment After II: Sleepers Awake"; his character, a new world order soldier is killed at a check point ambush. A film short "Sureality" was next where Ron plays a homeless guy living in a Las Vegas alley; his character's dialogue stitches together the missing parts of this suspenseful film, so the viewing audience suddenly understands the plot. Ron has been cast in a promotional commercial for the TV program "Sex and the City" and recently went to Hollywood where he did a GEICO spec commercial for TV. His most recent casting is that of a store clerk in an upcoming movie made for Blockbuster, "To the Wall" starring David White and Kevin Downs. This is also Ron's first billing as a producer.
Now Ron lives in his adopted home town of Exeter, California with his wife Ann and their three children Chad, Jodi and Wendy. He enjoys fishing from the deck of their house boat, writing and of course, acting. - Scott Shelton Ebert was Born Scott Owen Shelton to Dwaine (Red) and Karen Shelton in Porterville, California. At a young age Scott's parents divorced and Scott was raised my his Mom and Step Dad in Ontario, CA. Scott has three older brothers, James, Matthew, and David, and a younger sister Karey Lynn. Scott's Mom, a big supporter of the arts encouraged Scott to follow his loves of playing the clarinet, singing, and performing on stage. In 1981 Scott graduated from Chaffey High School, Ontario as a Senior Standout for Drama with a Drama Scholarship to Cal Poly, Pomona. Scott turned down the scholarship and joined the United States Marine Corps. Following the USMC Scott attended San Diego State University and then moved to Atlanta, Georgia for a Career in Finance. Scott has been seen on many Atlanta theatre stages, including that of the Fox theater and the 14th Street Playhouse. Scott has dabbled in Film and hopes to expand his Film and Theatre careers. When Scott is not performing he works in Asset Management for an International Property Investment Company.
- Dick Brooks was born on 14 April 1942 in Porterville, California, USA. He died on 1 February 2006 in Porterville, California, USA.
- Jim Weatherwax was born on 9 January 1943 in Porterville, California, USA.
- Kristi Key was born on 7 December 1957 in Porterville, California, US. Kristi has been married to Chris Mackey since 15 August 2020.
- James Sanders was born on 11 November 1983 in Porterville, California, USA.
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Jody Born was born on 10 August 1984 in Porterville, California, USA. He is known for The Digalong Gang, Tender as Hellfire (2009) and Pizza Time (2006).